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UN refuses to conduct probe against Pachauri in sexual harassment case
2015-02-24 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
India Tv: The United Nations on Wednesday made it clear that it will not conduct any inquiry into accusations of sexual harassment against RK Pachauri, who resigned as the chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as the case is being probed by national authorities. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the UN chief received a letter from Pachauri informing him of his decision to step down as the chairman of the panel with immediate...
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Head of UN climate change panel skips Nairobi meet amid sexual harassment allegations in India
2015-02-21 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its chairman, R.K. Pachauri, would skip next week's plenary session in the Kenyan capital "because of issues demanding his attention in India." While the organization refused to elaborate, Pachauri is being investigated after a 29-year-old...
RK Pachauri to skip Nairobi climate meet after woman complains of sexual harassment
2015-02-21 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deccan Chronicle: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC has said its chairman RK Pachauri has expressed his inability to go to Nairobi next week for chairing its plenary session in the wake of a complaint of sexual harassment against him. "The Chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra K Pachauri, has informed the IPCC that he will be unable to chair the plenary session of the IPCC in Nairobi next week because of issues demanding his attention in India," IPCC said in a statement in Delhi. This comes after...
UN climate panel chief Rajendra Pachauri accused of sexual harassment
2015-02-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been accused of sexually harassing a woman colleague at a New Delhi-based research institute headed by him. The 29-year-old researcher accused 74-year-old Pachauri of making physical advances and sending lewd text messages and e-mails since she joined The Energy and Research Institute in September 2013, according to a copy of the complaint and her lawyer. The preliminary complaint has been registered...
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U.N. climate panel chief Pachauri accused of sexual harassment
2015-02-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Police are investigating claims that the one of world's top climate change officials, Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sexually harassed a 29-year-old woman, police and lawyers said on Friday. The woman, who is a researcher at Pachauri's Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), claims the 74-year-old Indian scientist began harassing her soon after she joined the non-profit think-tank in September 2013. Pachauri has denied...
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